Quotes About Empathy

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

L'espèce humaine mourra de méchanceté.

La vrai amour ce n'est pas de vivre avec une femme parce qu'on l'aime, mais de l'aimer parce qu'on vit avec elle.

Les loups mêmes comprennent qui ne se mangent pas entre eux.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I believe in one thing — that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Considering themselves is what Narcissists do best. The trait they most conspicuously lack is concern for the needs, thoughts, and feelings of other people.